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Green Streets  

Trees outside Crowcroft Park Primary School, Manchester

What is the Green Streets project?

Green Streets uses greening projects to improve the quality of life for urban communities. From planting street trees, to creating communal green alleyways and living green walls, Green Streets works at the heart of the community with residents, business’ and partner organisations to promote the value of greening as a means of tackling a range of social, health and economic issues. Each community is different so Green Streets produces a sustainable tailor-made greening scheme to meet their specific needs.

The Green Streets Team has been working with local communities in Manchester and Trafford since 2001 and in Salford since 2003. Since then the project has been introduced to Merseyside and Teesside.

The project aims to improve the standard of living in urban areas by

  • Creating a lush green back drop to the urban setting, enhancing the physical appearance of streets and detracting from problems such as graffiti and vandalism.
  • Tackling environmental issues associated with city living such as air and noise pollution as well as providing a range of benefits to health and well being.
  • Encouraging community interaction and improving community spirit by giving local people the opportunity to get involved in the design of their scheme and helping residents to lead on the consultation process.
  • Fostering a sense of ownership in communities and empowering them to change their neighbourhoods for the better.
  • Helping to manage climate change. Street trees not only act as a carbon ‘sink’ for carbon dioxide, the transpiration process also has a cooling effect on local air temperatures, whilst leaves and branches provide vital shade.

Green Streets is a joint Red Rose Forest and Community Forests North West project in partnership with Manchester City Council, Salford City Council, Trafford Council, the Forestry Commission, North West Development Agency and Untied Utilities.

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Green Streets case studies

To see some examples of projects carried out by the Green Streets team in Red Rose Forest area please click on the links below.

Walter Street, Old Trafford
Monton Street, Moss Side
Longton Road, Blackley
Worsley Avenue, Moston
Goole Street, East Manchester

Green your community

If you would like to green your community please click here for more information Green your community  

More information

For more information on the Green Streets programme please contact Hilary Wood, Green Streets Manager on 0161 872 1660 or at

Associated Downloads

  pdf_icon  Green Streets: Making Greater Manchester Greener


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Last Updated ( Apr 08, 2010 at 10:42 AM )


 
   
 

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